Hydrocarbon-burner



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A. J. ENGLISH. Y HYDROGARBON BURNER. No. 443,509. Patented Dec. 30, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

ANDRE\V J. ENGLISH, OF CINCINNATI, OIIIO.

HYDROCARBON-BURN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,509, dated December 80, 1890.

Application filed July 15, 1889. Serial No. 317,638! (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, ANDREW J. ENGLISH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oincinnati, Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hydrocarbon-Burners, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention relates to hydrocarbon-vaporizing burners in which gasoline or other volatile hydrocarbon is employed and first vaporized by the heat of the burner engendered by the ultimate flame. The common mode of starting such burners in operation is to unscrew the needle-valve and allow the liquid gasoline to flow down into an open shallow receptacle or cup arranged beneath the burner and its retort, where it is ignited, and by the heat of the flame thus produced the retort is sufficiently heated to begin operations. This, however, besides being some what dangerous by reason of the liability tov overflow the cup and cause the burning gasoline to drop downward upon the floor beneath, also involves an excessive wear and sometimes breakage of the needlevalve, which, having been closed at the conclusion of a previous use of the burner while yet theparts were hot and expanded,becomes firmly set and wedged in position by the subsequent cooling and contraction of the parts. The latter difficulty is one inherent in the ordinary construction and use of such burners, while that first named is a more or less serious danger, according to theskill or want of skill of the attendant.

The object of my invention is to obviate both these difficulties and furnish a means of heating the burner, as a preliminary to its general operation, at once simple, effective, requiring no skill on the part of the operator, and requiring no unseating of the needlevalve until the parts are warm and restored to that condition of expansion in which the needle-valve was closed.

To this end my invention consists in combining with a vaporizing hydrocarbon-burner a detachable heating-cartridge of suitable absorbent material and a bracket or holding device adapted to hold the detachable cartridge in proper heating relation to the burner, which cartridge, being saturated with an inflammable liquid-such as alcohol, gasoline,

&c.and placed in proper position relatively to the burner and retort and lighted, furnishes the heat necessary to start the burner in operation.

Mechanism embodying my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings,iu which Figure l is a side elevation of an ordinary hydrocarbon-heating burner with its detachable heating-cartridge held in proper relation to the same by a bracket-arm formed as an attachment to the burner; Fig. 2, aplan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the cartridge detached.

Referring now to the drawings, A designates the ordinary heating-burner of a gasoline or vapor stove, which,being of a form now commonlyin use, will require no special description, it being sufficient to say that the gasoline ascending through the pipe (1. and through the passage 1), (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2,) which practically constitutes the retort, is discharged as a vapor, and as controlled by the needle valve 0 into the throat d of What is commonly termed the mixing-chamber e of the burner, whence it issues radiallyoutward through the interstices of the corrugated plates f, the heat of combustion serving to keep the parts, and particularly the retort, at the proper temperature for continued operation.

In the present illustration of my invention I have shown a bracket-arm 13 attached to or formed as part of the casing c of the needlevalve 0. This arm is suitably bent to form a holding-shelf, upon which an absorbent heating-cartridge G is adapted to rest inproper position beneath the burner and its retort. The cartridge itself is conveniently constructed as a cylinder of wire-gauze or perforated sheet metal and filled with a suitable absorbent earth-such, for example, as tripoli, (a diatomaceous earth)or with asbestus, or, indeed, any refractory and absorbent material. The cartridge is provided with asuitable handle it, and is charged by being immersed in an inflammable liquid and allowed to remain until saturated partially or wholly therewith.

The mode of operation is sufficiently obvi ous. The saturated cartridge, being placed upon its supporting-shelf, is ignited with a match or otherwise, and its flame communicates the desired heat to the burner and its attachments and may be removed when its oiiice is performed.

\Vhile I have herein shown and described a permanent shelf or bracket attachment to the burner as a means of supporting the cartridge, yet it will be obvious that it may be supported in a variety of ways or by a supporting-shell. arranged in any other manner. Neither is the precise form of construction of the cartridge material, as any combined mass of porous material capable of absorbing the inflammable liquid for the use indicated may be employed.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States 1. The combination, with a vaporizing hy- AXDREW .I. ENGLISH.

\Vitnesses:

WM. G. IIOSEA, ELLA HosEA. 

